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Chris Webb is a Solid Quality Mentors Associate Mentor who has been working with the Microsoft Business Intelligence toolset since 1998. His main focus is Analysis Services - complex MDX queries and calculations are his particular interest - although...
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Marco Russo is a consultant, writer and trainer specialized in Business Intelligence with Microsoft technologies. He runs the SQLBI.EU website, which is dedicated to distribute resources useful for BI developers, like Integration Services components,...
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Remus is a database consultant for SQL Server projects and he is specializing in data transfer, batch processing and workflow programming using Service Broker. He is the moderator of the Service Broker forum on MSDN and answers frequently SQL Server questions...
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I don't know German but according to http://www.freetranslation.com "Dies ist meine" is translated as "This is mine". So in the May edition of SQL Server Magazine the supplement named SQL Server 2008 - Pocket Guide is written by yours truly. Due to some...
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The European PASS Conference is over. One of the best speakers this year (in my opinion the best one) was Bob Ward. I attended both his sessions at PASS Europe and if they were the only sessions at this conference it would be enough to justify my travel...
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Ok, another personal post - you know the rule - don't care don't read. 15 minutes of fame? That was the 1968 phrase of the american artist Andy Warhol . I guess that now it's my turn. I can hear some of my readers thinking, yeah, yeah - keep bragging....
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I’ve been asked on first of April if the SQL Hero contest is real or not. Just because the guy that asked me saw a post on a blog that day it doesn't mean that it's a joke. It is as serious as it can be. To clear this out I abused the kindness of David...
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TechNet Magazine - April 2008 - In Focus SQL Server 2008 just read it What's New SQL Server 2008 - Security New Data Types Data Warehouse Query Performance SQL Server 2008 - Minimize Blocking in SQL Server Microsoft Office: Integrating Access Databases...
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Been there, asked and I got answers. Some of my questions during the CTP 6 Public Chat were the following: Bill Ramos[MSFT] (Expert): Q: I noticed that CTP6 allows using custom traces for the Generic SQL Trace Collector Type (correct me if I am wrong),...
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Disclaimer: This is a personal blog post therefore you may skip it. Introduction To use George Michael words: "It was the third of September / That day I'll always remember, yes I will / 'cause that was the day that my daddy died" For me it wasn't third...
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"My outrageous claim [is this]: In 15-20 years from now: Information will stay only in XML (no more tuples, no more objects). Imperative languages as we know them today (Java, C, C++, C#) will be gone. We will program with some extension of XQuery, or...
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I am kidding. No one knows everything about SQL Server. Anyway, Microsoft SQL Server Data Services means if you don't care about marketing - SQL Server in the cloud. Resources: SQL Server Data Services (Microsoft Official Site) SQL Server Data Services...
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Announcement from Microsoft: "We have recently discovered an issue with SQL Server 2008 CTPs that result in SQL Server 2008 not starting or installing on Feb 29 GMT only. We recommend that you do not run, install or upgrade this CTP on Feb 29 GMT to minimize...
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When: Monday March 13, 2008 11:00am PST With whom: Microsoft SQL Server development team Link: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspx Add to Calendar Be There!...
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Step 1: Accessing the site - http://www.microsoft.com/virtualevents/ Result: Found solution on this link http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/01/31/download-error-code-4001.aspx Refresh until you get in. It took me 45 minutes of refreshing....
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It's hard to believe that readers of my blog haven't heard about SQL Server Magazine. Now, we have SQL Server Store, I mean Microsoft SQL Server Store . What you can buy from it at this point? SQL Server 2008 July CTP Price: 0.00 SQL ServerTM 2005 System...
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If you like DM Add-ins for Office 2007 then you will love their new version included in the SQL Server 2008 February Feature Pack CTP. More about them and more Data Mining topics in the data miner newsletter for february ....
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Which one to use ? Or which combination ? Find out here: Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition...
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Someone asked me today about SharePoint resource so I pointed him to the following links: http://blogs.msdn.com/scaravajal/archive/2008/01/16/free-sharepoint-training.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2006/07/14/665637.aspx Maybe someone else...
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More details here: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6899949 What's new Sparse Columns and Column Sets SQL Server PowerShell Provider and Cmdlets Compressed Storage of Tables and Indexes Filtered Indexes and Statistics SQL Server Management Studio Enhancements...
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946608/en-us Nope, it's not SP3...
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As I love this feature (Deprecation feature warns you through perf counters or SQL Trace events that you are using features that will be removed in future versions of SQL Server), I played a lot with it and I found some surprises: They were not included...
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I would say yes and you can say yes too by voting here: http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=326575...
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Not too many posts yet a little too much marketing for my state but since the BI area needs support the new blog is welcomed: http://blogs.msdn.com/bi/default.aspx...
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